Deconstructing the stereotype of the preschool teacher in times of pandemic

Abstract

In this narrative, the author, a young woman who is a preschool teacher in a rural area of ​​Oaxaca, Mexico, rebels against the instituted stereotype of the preschool teacher. She reflects on life in a pandemic, for some under the shelter of a roof and job security, for others in the fierce daily struggle for livelihoods. After all, the personal is political, as evidenced in her narrative that reveals an emerging daily life where social inequality is exacerbated and the contradictions of the role imposed on women, especially on educators, become apparent. Perhaps the capacity for astonishment is exhausted or we already accept with indifference the fact of death that haunts our communities, especially when it knocks on the door of the dispossessed, the homeless, the poor? The author's speech, framed in intersectional feminism and critical pedagogy, represents a resource that contributes to the reflection of the historical moment that we live. There is a need for rethink what and how of an education based on social justice and questioning the patriarchal order that undermines human rights.